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Patented Aug. I3. |901v (Appumiqn med :une a, 1901.)

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No. 680,574. Patented Aug. ls, 190|.

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(Application lad June 8, 1901.)

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UNITED STATES" PATENT EEICE.

BEINHOLD EEEN, or PADERBORN, GERMANY.

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SPECIFICATION forming* Part Of LE'QTS Patent NO. 680,574, dated August 13, 1901.

Application filed Tune 8, 1901. Sfial N0. 63,770. (No model T0 all whom, t 11i/ty concern.-

Beit known that I, REINHOLD EBEN, a subject of the King of Prussia, Emperor of Germany, and a resident of Paderborn, Prussia, (Bauditten, near Maldeuten, East Prussia,) Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Transfer-Tables; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

Arrangements for crossing an uninterrupted main railway-track are already known in which the rails of the branch track are laid at the crossing-place with the rail of the main track unbroken and are at this place so elevated that the flange of the wheel of the vedicle traveling on the branch or side track can cross over the rail of the main track. This crossing-over in spite of guide-rails or tread-plates does not take place without j olts and without the main-track rail being in the end more or less damaged.

In order to enable vehicles to be transferred from a broad-gage track to a narrow-gage track, or vice versa, without breakage of continuity of the rail of the broad-gage track which is to be crossed and without jolt and damage to the broad-gage rail, in the arrangement forming the obj ect of the present invention the [langes of the wheels of the narrowgage vehicles or trolleys, which serve for receiving and transporting said broad-gage vehicles, are made so wide that they cannot descend into the channel or groove between the tread-plates and the rail ofthe broad-gage track which is to be crossed, through which channel the flanges of the wheels of the broadgage vehicles can easily pass.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a side view of the arrangement; Fig. 2, a plan view of same; Fig. 3, a section on the line A B of Fig. l, showing a narrow-gage trolley with revoluble underframes. Fig. 4 is a side view, and Fig. 5 an end view, of a twoaXled trolley-car With broad wheel-angesg and Fig. 6 shows isometrically the action of the broad-hanged wheel when traveling over an existing channel or interstice. The broadgage track ct is assumed to run horizontally in the section of track shown. I

The narrow-gage track b is laid higher than the broad-gage track inside the curve in which the part lying inside the broad-gage track is projected into that lying outside the broadgage track. The rails of the narrow-gage track are broken or interrupted in proximity to the place where they cross the rails of the broad-gage track, and tread-plates for the flanges of the narrow-gage transporting vehicles or trolleys c are connected with the ends of the broken rails. 'A guide-rail d is arranged in the narrow-gage track b opposite to the place where the rail which lies on the outside of the curve, reckoning from the center of radius of the latter, is broken at the rail of the broad-gage track a, which it crosses.

Opposite the guide-rail (l and outside the broad-gage track there Ais a tread-plate g at the place where the outer rail of the'curve of the narrow-gage track b is interrupted, and anothertread-platef lies beneath the broadgage track a at the place where the inner rail of the narrow-gage track b is interrupted.

The trolley c is so low that it is unnecessary for the narrow-gage track inside the broad gage to lie at a lower-level. The narrow-gage track rests on the same sleepers as the broad gage. When itis desired to'trans'fera wagon from the broad-gage to the narrow-gage track, the trolley c is Vrun underv the broad-gage wagon, and when this has taken place a connection between the Wagon e and trolley c is established by suitable catches being lifted, so that, as shown in Fig. l, before entering the curve the wagon e is already at its front end lifted off the rails of the broad-gage track and is supported by the trolley c. In traveling over the curve the flanges of the respective wheels of the trolley run over the treadplate f and one rail of the broad-gage track a, and the wheels on the other side run over this rail and the tread-plate g, lying outside the track, without damaging the rail. For this object the langes, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, are made so broad that they are supported on the tread-platef, while they also project over the rail of the main track o., Fig. 3. The flanges of the trolley thus cannot drop into the recess provided for the IOO flanges of the broad-gage vehicle-Wheels between the tread-plate j' and the rail of the broad-gage track a, which is to be crossed, and therefore the transference takes place Without jolt and Without damaging the broadgage track.

The Wheels of the trolley by pressing against the guide-rail d cause the trolley to be so guided that it does not drop into the interval in the outer rail of the curve of the narrowgage track at the crossing of the rail of the broad-gage track.

The replacement of the broad-gage wagon on the broad-gage track takes place in a similar manner `to its removal from the track. When the respective station has been advised that the trolley c, with the removed broad-gage wagon, has left the main line, the trains on the same may run thereon unimpededly. No points or pointsman are necessary. It is also possible by this arrangement. to remove broad gage Wagons from their track without at all damaging the latter by means of narrow-gage trolleys and to again deposit them on another broad-gage track.

I declare that what I claim isl. In an arrangement for transferring vehicles from a broad-gage track to a narrowgage track and vice versa without the necessity of breaking the rails of the broad-gage track, the combination of a narrow-gage track laid between the rails of said broad-gage track at the point where the crossing is to b e made, tread-plates at the points Where the rails of the narrow-gage track cross the broad-gage rail arranged at a sufficient distance from the latterto permit of the passage of the flanged wheels of the broad-gage vehicles, and means for carrying said broad-gage vehicles upon the narrow-gage track and for transporting them on said track over the broad-gage rails,

without concussion, or damage to said broadgage rails, substantially as set forth.

2. In an arrangement for transferring Vehicles from a broad-gage track to a narrowgage track, and vice versa, Without the necessity of breaking the rails of said broadl gage track, in which the narrow-gage track is laid between the rails of the broad-gage track and only rises above the level of said track at the pointwhere it crosses the track, the combination of a tread-plate within the track at the end of the narrow-gage rail which forms the inner rail of the curve, the top of which plate is on a level with the top of the rail of the broad-gage track, and which is so mounted as to leave a space through which the flanged wheel of the broad-gage vehicle can pass, a guide-rail beside the inner rail of said curve of the narrow-gage track outside the broad-gage track, and a tread-plate at each side of the broad-gage rail where the outer rail of the curve of the narrow-gage track crosses the broad-gage track, leaving a sufficient space for the passage of the anged wheels of the broad-gage vehicles, substantially as set forth.

3. In an arrangement for transferring vehicles from a broad-gage to a narrow-gage track and vice versa without the necessity of breaking the rails ot' the broad-gage track, the combination of a narrow-gage track between the rails ofthe broad-gage track curved soV as to cross said broad-gage track, and adapted to permit of the passage of a narrowgage vehicle without serious concussions to the crossed rail of the broad-gage track, and a narrow-gage trolley-car adapted to transport the broad-gage vehicle, the flanges of the Wheels 'of said trolley-car being very broad, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4:. In an arrangement for transporting vehicles from a broad-gage track to a narrowgage track and vice versa without the necessity of a break in the rails of said broad-gage track, the combination of tread-plates at the points Where said narrow-gage track crosses said broad-gage track, and of a transporting trolley-car mounted upon wheels, the flanges of which have a large bearing surface or tread substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of-two subscribing witnesses.

REINIIOLD EBEN.

Witnesses:

GEORG voN HEYEDROLPF, CURT voN WESTERNKAPEN. 

